Universities, research scholars, historians and analysts all review historical documents— examining events in the past, looking for context to better understand the past's impact on modern society ...

Historical Studies investigates the human past through diverse disciplinary lenses to reveal patterns of change and continuity across time. It employs methodologies ranging from archival research, ...

Researchers are using AI to decode ancient manuscripts, damaged letters, and historical archives that humans have struggled ...

Additional regulations around a federal law allowing Native American tribes to retrieve ancestral and cultural items are ...

One of the most important rules historians doing field research can remember is to do as much research as possible before going out into the field. Without this diligent research, the historian may ...

The History Department offers a number of competitive fellowships to junior and senior majors in history who wish to conduct either independent study or honors research, and who need financial support ...

Elizabeth Shown Mills, a genealogist and historical writer, is answering readers’ questions about how to research family history using online sources, physical public records and the stories and DNA ...

Indigenous communities have lived with changes to the climate for centuries. Their adaptations over those many years are based on their close observation of weather, water, soils and seasonal change, ...

The History Department encourages superior history majors to pursue independent research and writing in the creation of an honors thesis. The honors thesis is a multi-chaptered, original piece of ...

One of the extraordinary consequences of computer modeling techniques is that they make it possible to simulate various real-world phenomena in fantastic detail. Computer fluid dynamics, for example, ...

To pin down documented facts relative to a specific historical question. Congratulations. You've just been made a Deputy History Detective. To become a full Detective, you only need to conduct a ...